Vika Prokopaviciute
Vika Prokopaviciute's artistic practice is characterized by questions of structure, construction, and visual cognition, treating painting not as a static object but as an open-ended process of inquiry. In this sense, painting becomes a site where perception itself is interrogated, foregrounding the instability of visual knowledge with works that oscillate between optical illusion and physical materiality.
Rather than treating painting as a stable representational surface, Prokopaviciute understands it as an epistemological field-a site in which visual knowledge is produced through processes of uncertainty, repetition, and transformation. In this regard, through layered geometries, folded structures, woven patterns, and subtle chromatic modulations Prokopaviciute destabilizes conventional distinctions between two-dimensional pictorial space and sculptural form.
Furthermore, rather than treating each painting as an isolated work, Prokopaviciute develops her paintings as interconnected moments within an evolving system. Each canvas emerges from the previous one as motifs migrate across successive works. In this sense, Prokopaviciute's practice resonates with the idea that space and form within the painting, is not conceived as a pre-existing field to be represented or occupied, but as something that emerges through the reciprocal acts of painting and perception. Space is continuously constituted in the encounter between gestures, forms, memories of previous paintings, and the embodied experience of looking. The resulting self-referential visual syntax resists the notion of the painting as a fixed, autonomous object.
Prokopaviciute's work explores the idea that meaning is always in flux, with a form of abstraction that resists fixed formal vocabularies and embraces painting as a dynamic process. Her practice positions abstraction not as a withdrawal from the visible world but as a critical mode of investigation through which relationships between form, perception, and materiality can be continuously renegotiated. The resulting paintings invite viewers into an active perceptual encounter in which meaning emerges through movement, duration, and sustained observation rather than immediate visual legibility.
Contemporary Art from Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, 2026
Born in 1983, Lithuania
Lives and works in Vienna
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Art Cologne, COMMUNE, Cologne, Germany (upcoming)
2025 'Twins', Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 'Zero-sum', House of Spouse, Vienna, Austria
2023 'Van Look Preis: The Back Room', E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany
2022 'Very Accessible Painting', Trust, Vienna, Austria
2022 'Niche', Editorial, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 'Pale Echo', NEVVEN, Gothenburg, Sweden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 'Lebt und arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2026 'Tender Territories, Areal Böhler, Düsseldorf, Germany
2025 'Through this, That, Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2025 'Related to nothing in the dictionary, Kunstraum Konrad, Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria
2024 'Art-o-rama Fair, Editorial x Drifts, Marseille, France
2024 'Fragment I, Commune, Vienna, Austria
2024 'Systems of Support, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
2023 'Feeling Without Touching, Nicodim, New York, USA
2023 'Terminus, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
2023 'nEYEYEght, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon, Portugal
2023 'Approach, Coulisse, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 'Out of the Corner of the Eye, Editorial, Vilnius, Lithuania
2022 'How exactly like the object, how beautiful! How exactly like the object, how ugly! Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2021 'Odd Attractor, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021 'Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
2021 '4/Cyan, Tim Nolas, Vienna, Austria
2020 'New Views on Same-Olds, xhibit, Vienna, Austria
2020 'Radical Passivity: Politics of the Flesh, nGbK, Berlin, Germany
2020 'Unchain #1, WAF galerie - kunstbuero, Vienna, Austria
2020 'Der Bote ist der Tote, Mauve, Vienna, Austria
2019 'No x in nixon, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna, Austria
2019 'Über das Neue, Pferd, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
2019 'Vorwand II, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Austria
2018 'Vorwand, Pilot, Vienna, Austria
2018 'Unter Bildern, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria
EDUCATION
2019 University of Applied Arts, Vienna
PRIZES & RESIDENCIES
2025 Borderland Residencies, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
2024 City of Vienna Artist Work Grant
2023 Van Look Preis, Freiburg, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Sammlung Wien Museum, Austria
Artothek des Bundes, Vienna, Austria
Jämtland Härjedalen, Sweden
Västra Götaland, Sweden
The Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
